Though President Trump’s April 9 announcement of a 90-day pause in many planned tariffs reduced fears of an imminent economic ...

The MoneyShow Chart of the Day shows excerpts from an infographic detailing which sectors tend to perform best (and worst) when the economy is slowing down and when it’s in recession.

Behind the gradual and relatively small rise in the U.S. unemployment rate in recent years are a couple of less-closely ...

Officially, the arbiter of recessions is the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee. The ...

There’s an old joke in economics that stock markets have predicted nine out of the past five recessions. The point being that predicting a recession solely based on the stock market is difficult.

Economic downturns affect credit access, slow collections, and spur bankruptcies. Recessions are significant, widespread, and sustained contractions of economic activity marked by declines in ...

Officially, the arbiter of recessions is the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Business Cycle Dating Committee. The publicity-shy committee has been marking the start and end points of ...